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Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2007: Call for nominations



I hereby nominate myself for the position of DPL.

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:09:33AM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>         According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project
>  leader elections should begin "nine weeks before the leadership post
>  becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately."
> 
>         The new project leader term starts on April 17th, and that
>  sets the time line:
>  Nomination period:  Feb 4th  00:00:01 UTC -- Feb 25th 00:00:00 UTC
>  Campaigning period: Feb 25th 00:00:01 UTC -- Mar 18th 00:00:00 UTC
>    Voting period:    Mar 18th 00:00:01 UTC -- Apr  8th 00:00:00 UTC
> 
>         Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution,
>  but, just to review: there's a three week period when interested
>  developers nominate themselves, followed by a three week period with
>  no nominations [intended for campaigning], followed by three weeks
>  for the election itself.
> 
>         Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution,
>  but, just to review: there's a three week period when interested
>  developers nominate themselves, followed by a three week period with
>  no nominations [intended for campaigning], followed by three weeks
>  for the election itself.
> 
>         I intend to collect platform statements from the candidates,
>  and publish them on a known location (somewhere under
>  www.debian.org/vote) at the end of the nomination period and the
>  beginning of the campaign.
> 
>         I suggest that the candidates send the platform, preferably in
>  HTML/SGML, to the secretary at least a couple of days before the
>  publication date.
> 
>         This should give the candidates enough time to craft their
>  platforms, I should think. The format of the web page is open to
>  discussion, but I suggest there be at least three sections:
>   a) Introduction/Biography
>   b) Major Goal/ Meat of the platform,
>   c) Rebuttal.
> 
>         After the publication, there share be a one week period for
>  each candidate to create a rebuttal, and the rebuttals shall be
>  published on Mar 4th, 2007.
> 
>        In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC
>  channel set up for the purpose. Don Armstrong has volunteered to head
>  this effort.  I would like to invite people to help him with this
>  effort.  The debate should be held on IRC, and the time to do so
>  would be after the rebuttals have been posted by the candidates, and
>  the campaigns have been well established, and people have had time to
>  think up questions, and before the voting starts, at the convenience
>  of the candidates, and the panelists (which kinda puts it roughly in
>  the nones or the ides of March, I think).
> 
>         I would like to hand off the actual selection of other
>  panelists (who may or may not be debian developers) and running the
>  debate to the chair, Don Armstrong, (to minimize any hint of
>  collusion with current office holders, including me).  I hereby
>  invite volunteers for the debate chair and panelists; these
>  volunteers shall be responsible for setting the rules for the debate
>  and selecting the questions for the candidates.
> 
>         Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to)
>  debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed.
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         manoj
> 
> -- 
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> Tarl Neustaedter
> Debian Project Secretary <srivasta@debian.org> <http://vote.debian.org//>
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